LibGuides: Cultural Anthropology: Books and other Resources

Shelf surfing is a good way to find books that are not easily found in the catalog. Knowing where to look for books on cultural anthropology is key to finding the books on the shelf. Below are call numbers sorted by subject. Books on anthropology, race, medical anthropology, ethnology, social & cultural anthropology, and more are often listed under the following call number:

Anthropology

Call Number: GN1 - 890

Race (General)

Call Number: GN269 - 279

Medical Anthropology

Call Number: GN296 - 296.5

Ethnology, Social & Cultural Anthropology

Call Number: GN301 - 674

Culture & Cultural Processes including Social Change, Structuralism, Diffusion, etc

Call Number: GN354 - 367

Cultural Traits, Customs, & Institutions

Call Number: GN406 - 517

Ethnic Groups & Races

Call Number: GN537 - 674

Folklore

Call Number: GN1 - 950

SUBJECT HEADINGS

You can also search the library catalog by using subject headings. Subject headings can be a word, group of words, or phrase used to describe what the book is about. The following is a partial list of subject headings related to Cultural Anthropology that can be used when searching for books and other items in the FAU Libraries Catalog.

Anthropology
Ethnology
Ethnology--fieldwork
Ethnopyschology
First Contact (Anthropology)
Philosophical anthropology
Medical anthropology
Medical anthropology-philosophy
Theological anthropology--Christianity

Landmark Books in Cultural Anthropology

Anthropology and Myth by Claude Lévi-Strauss; Roy Willis (Translator)
The published work of Claude Levi-Strauss over the last three and a half decades has established him as one of the world′s most innovative anthropologists.
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword by Ruth Benedict
A classic of cultural anthropology that traces the development of Japanese ideology over thirteen centuries.
Patterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict
A study of the civilizations of the Zuni Indians, the natives of Dobu, and the Kwakiutl Indians.
Race, language, and culture by Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
"Anthropology... is often held to be a subject that may satisfy our curiosity regarding the early history of mankind, but of no immediate bearing upon the problems that confront us. This view has always seemed to me erroneous... In the following pages I have collected such of my writings as, I hope, will prove the validity of my point of view."
Coming Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead The groundbreaking classic detailing Margaret Mead's first field work at age 23, establishing Mead's core insights into childhood and culture that challenged and changed our view of life.  Rarely do science and literature come together in the same book.  When they do -- as in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, for example -- they become classics, quoted and studied by scholars and the general public alike. Margaret Mead accomplished this remarkable feat not once but several times, beginning with Coming of Age in Samoa. It details her historic journey to American Samoa, taken when she was just twenty-three, where she did her first fieldwork. Here, for the first time, she presented to the public the idea that the individual experience of developmental stages could be shaped by cultural demands and expectations. Adolescence, she wrote, might be more or less stormy, and sexual development more or less problematic in different cultures.  Mead's revolutionary book, dedicated to the girls of Tau, was one of the first studies to pay attention to girls' lives. Her keen observations contain many ideas that are still powerful today--that sexuality is culturally-shaped, that adolescence need not be stressful, and that the lives of adolescent girls are worthy of attention and respect. Now this groundbreaking, beautifully written work as been reissued for the centennial of Mead's birth, featuring introductions by Mary Pipher, Ph.D. (Reviving Ophelia) and by Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateso (Composing a Life).
Call Number: DU813.M4 1961
ISBN: 9780688309749
Publication Date: 1971-01-01